George Eliot Quotes

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

We used to be the country with the highest percentage of college graduates. We are no more and the gap is widening.

I wasn't really comfortable going to college.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Students now see college more as a credentialing institution rather than an academic institution.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

It is unconscionable that a rich country like the United States has made access to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

Michelle and I—we’re where we are today only because scholarships and student loans gave us a shot at a great education.

Nothing in a college education makes a girl either unfit for domestic obligations or masculine in her tastes..

I'll never graduate from collagen.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

Middle and high school sucked.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.